Bought this off Ebay a few months back, it T boned a car turning right while overtaking,and sat in a shed for 27 years.
Just about everything was fucked, accept the back wheel. engine had two snapped valves, I found a gear tooth in the sump, frame was fucked forks fucked frontwheel fucked, taco speedo seat tank side covers tail peace blinkers fucked fucked fucked.
The frame was too stuffed to straighten so I decided to chop all the bent bits off.
Fuck! not much left, should I rebuild or buy another frame?
Well I'd never built a frame before and this one was nearly half done, so I bought some chrome moly, made a pipe bender from scrap I had around the house, studied up on frame geometry and got started.
Used a sheet of 12mm thick steel for a base, made up a few jigs (sorry, forgot to take pics) my lathe was too small so I got the local engineering shop to turn up the head stock then started bending cutting and welding,
So far so good. everything lines up spot on.